Inside Books Volunteer Night

Come and open letters from Texas inmates and send them books that they request. We need all the help we can get.
Also, we always encourage people to bring dictionaries and book donations (soft back, please)for our library.

This is a non-profit organization formed to help Texas inmates through literacy and self-education.

Thursdays 6pm-10pm
Sundays 7pm-12am

Location:
Rhizome Collective
(300 E Allen St)

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

BikeShop WorkParty

Bikes Across Borders:
Cultural political art, education and bicycles. We intercept bikes from the waste stream, fix them, and bring them to community bike workshops south of the border. Volunteer work parties are Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-10 pm. Learn how to fix bikes or teach others!

Location:
| 300 Allen St. | Austin Tx | 78702 |
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| 512.385.3695 |

Cost: only a few hours of your time

Organizer:

URL: rhizomecollective.org/ccOrganizing.html

War Is Not the Answer rally

The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore will host an End the War! End the Occupation! rally on Thurs., Jan. 13 from 5 PM to 6:30 PM in Mount Vernon at Centre & Charles Sts. This is an opportunity, prior to the inauguration, to remind the people of Baltimore that opposition to this awful war will continue. The Pledge gathers in Mount Vernon on the second Thursday of the month to protest the war.

Location:
Charles and Centre Streets in Mount vernon, just south of the Washington Monument

Directions: Mount Vernon is north of the Inner Harbor, and the Walters Art gallery is nearby.

Organizer:

URL: www.afsc.org

End the War! End the Occupation! rally

The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore will host an End the War! End the Occupation! rally on Thurs., Jan. 13 from 5 PM to 6:30 PM in Mount Vernon at Centre & Charles Sts. This is an opportunity, prior to the inauguration, to remind the people of Baltimore that opposition to this awful war will continue. The Pledge gathers in Mount Vernon on the second Thursday of the month to protest the war.

Location:
Charles and Centre Streets in Mount Vernon, which is north of the Inner Harbor and home to Baltimore's Washington Monument

Organizer:

URL: www.afsc.org

Court Solidarity - Aimee Smith's trial

Aimee Smith is facing trial after being harrassed and arrested by the same cop
who previously arrested her while she tries to exercise her first amendment
rights. The previous trial was resceduled from December after the prosecution
brought previously undisclosed information into the courtroom.

Location:
Cambridge Courthouse, 13th floor (T: Lechemere)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.baamboston.org/

The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker: Lessons from an Ancient Native American Spiritual Teacher
Robert Gerzon

Event Code: LF03

The Peacemaker Epic, a recently rediscovered historically-based Native American legend, tells the inspiring story of a great Iroquois spiritual leader whose radical message of love and peace dramatically transformed warring tribes caught in a self-destructive cycle of violence into an enduring civilization based on principles of love, justice and natural law.

We will explore the clues this mythic epic may contain regarding America's spiritual identity and historic destiny

What: Lecture Series at CCAE
When: Thursdays at 10:30am, beginning 1/13/05 and ending 3/17/05

Location:
Cambridge Center for Adult Education 56 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge

Cost: $2 ($1 Seniors)

URL: http://www.ccae.org

The Death of Innocents

Sister Helen Prejean

THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun when her first book, DEAD MAN WALKING, challenged the way we look at the death penalty. In her new book, she again looks at capital punishment, asking: what if we’re killing the wrong man?

Location:
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge

Cost: Free tickets at Harvard Book Store

URL: http://hbsnews.c.topica.com/maac2I1abc26QbePUhjbafpLQA/

Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration

Program starts with American Indian Drumming, and then the audience participation play by David Rothauser `Let Loose the Dogs of War.’

At 8pm, music, poetry, and political action

Askia Toure MC, Paula Green, Jazz ensemble;

Regie Gibson and Askia Toure, award winning poets;

Tony Van Der Meer: MLK as Peace Activist;

City Counselor Chuck Turner, Safety Net/ACE activist Klare Allen: Environmental Injustice and the opposition to the proposed BU Bioweapons lab

Sharon Abreu, contemporary folk

Hans Poppel, contemp jazz improv

The Foundation, political Hip Hop

new cultural action group: Artists for Peace and Justice.

Handicap accessible.

Location:
Tower Auditorium, Mass College of Art, 621 Huntington Ave

Cost: $10 suggested donation

Organizer:

URL: http://www.justicewithpeace.org/

"The Little Angel of Colombia"

The Little Angel of Colombia is an incredibly moving and inspiring documentary about a poor Colombian boy, Albeiro Vargas, who at the age of 8 dedicated himself to helping elderly shut-ins who had been abandoned by their families. This story could be an educational fairy tale but it is totally true. In the film we watch Albiero as he and his squads of young "angels" give their hearts and souls to take care of these abandoned old people.

Even at this young age Albiero was already functioning as a mature director: he located the elders in need, he organized the children, networked, took care of their medical and legal affairs, managed the finances (including big donations coming from France) and even created control systems to prevent corruption, and he was only a very young boy from a simple family.

Today Albiero realizes his dream of directing a modern care facility for 140 poor and elderly people who would otherwise be homeless.

The facility, as well as the documentary, is a monument to the potential we all possess when we follow our heart wholly and without the assumption of limitation.

Albeiro Vargas will join us for a live conference call following the film! (8:30pm)

*This film was originally intended to be screened at 38 Cameron on Saturday, December 11th, 2004, but was canceled due to technical difficulties. However, we wanted people to have the chance to see this extraordinary film.

38 Cameron is a unique new event center with a broad offering of public events including film presentations, speaker events and discussions. By creating and hosting public forums to explore different areas of interest, it is fast becoming a thriving community cultural center in North Cambridge. It is also now open as an art gallery.

Location:
38 Cameron Avenue, Suite 100, Davis Square, Cambridge

Cost: $5 (children under 15 are free)

Directions: **Note: There are two 38 Cameron addresses on Cameron Avenue! Be sure to go to the one 100 yards away from Massachusetts Avenue on the Cambridge side.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.38cameron.com

Gender Crash Open Mic

Gender Crash open mic
Where you can be a Rock Star! for at least 3 minutes!

Open mic for poets/spoken wordsters/literary geeks/journal writers/queers/transgender/gender queers

Gender crash will take you from politics to erotica in less than 5 minutes. A fun, welcoming, exciting, and often flirtatious crowd where open mic performances range from spoken word, to comedy, to drag, or acoustic music, all from newbies to veterans. Each month we feature one poet, performer, or spoken wordster.

Need a a break from gender conformity? Come read with go-go gender queers with words of action, erotic writing soccer moms, sweet trans boys with agendas, bears who bake and write about it, poet inspiring truck driving gay boys, devilish dykes, awe inducing poetic transwomen, princess riot grrls with diaries, transmen with type written essays, queer Daddies with bedtime stories, beautiful bisexuals speaking sonnets, butches whispering love poems to femmes and yes you!!!
All ages and open to everyone

Location:
Spontaneous Celebrations 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain Orange line Stony Brook stop

Cost: $5-10 sliding scale at the door

Directions: Center Street to Larmartine St take right onto Bolyston Street right on Danforth St. Free parking

Organizer:

URL: http://www.butchdykeboy.com

Xerrada: Nicaragua i Front Sandinista

Xerrada informativa sobre la situació actual a Nicaragua i el Front Sandinista d'Alliberament Nacional.

Location:
Casal Popular de Castelló (C./Jordi Joan, 37)

Organizer:

[Jornades Antirepresives a la UAB]

PROGRAMA

11:30h: Presentació-xerrada del diari DIAGONAL
12:00h: Taller de cartes a pres@s
13:30h: Papeo popular a 2,5 nEurus
15:00h: Xerrada a càrrec de:
-Jordi Busquets (advocat del col·lectiu Fontanella)
-Tres de Gràcia (campanya de suport 3 joves de Gràcia)
-Sat (campanya absolució terrasenc Que volen aquesta gent?)
-04 Oct '04 (assemblea suport detinguts el passat oct a Sants)

17:45h: Concert amb:
Txou Txou (hip hop)
Igitaia (Ska)
Terrorismo Sonoro (Punk-Rock)
Proceso (punk)
+ grups sorpresa

++paradetes antirepresives
++distribuidores alternatives
++exposicions antirepresives

>>Preus popular
>>Els beneficis aniran destinats a autogestionar diferents campanyes antirepresives

Solidaritat Activa i Revolucionaria!

Location:
Plaça Cínica de la Uab
Entre la facultat de ciències i el Saf
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Cerdanyola del Vallés
RENFE: Cerdanyola universitat (direcció cerdanyola/uab)
FGC: Universitat Autònoma (direcció sabadell o uab)

Cost: Preus populars

Directions: Trobareu Plànols i transports a:
www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite

Organizer:

Introducción a la edición con LateX2e

LaTeX es una potente herramienta de edición de textos científicos que aún no ha sido sustituida por los modernos procesadores de texto en el mundo de las editoriales científicas y en académicas. Además de enseñar el lenguaje LaTeX para la edición de textos científicos el curso comprende una introducción a los manuales y recursos abiertos de LaTeX y a las herramientas de edición de textos basadas en LaTeX (creación automática de PDFs y HTML), uso de bases de datos bibliográficas, las nuevas herramientas de conversión a LaTeX desde lenguajes más sencillos y de fácil uso (parsewiki).

Location:
Udondo gaztetxea, Leioa, Bizkaia

Cost: Zero patatero

Directions: Aretoan ordenagailuak daude eta software librea erabiltzen dute.

Organizer:

URL: http://sindominio.net/metabolik/wiki/index.pl?CursosRepartidos

Glasgow Anti-G8 meeting

Meeting to discuss how best to welcome in Glasgow the rulers of the world when they come to the G8 summit July.

Lots of exciting events planned! Open agenda. Bring ideas and enthusiasm

Location:
Pearce Institute, Govan

Directions: 100 yards west of Govan Underground / bus station.

Organizer:

Save Our Groundwater Meeting

Save Our Groundwater (S.O.G.) is a citizen action group dedicated to advocating that water is a natural resource to be held in the public trust and to be protected now and for the future. We recently formed in response to the request for a large groundwater withdrawal permit by USA Springs, Inc. on a parcel of land located in Nottingham and Barrington, NH.


Save Our Groundwater Meeting
January 13, 2004
7pm
Sugar Shack in Lee, NH

Location:
Sugar Shack, Route 4, Lee, NH

Organizer:

URL: saveourgroundwater.org

Movement for Change Weekly Meeting

Movement for Change has its weekly meeting on this day at the Center for Social Justice on the corner of Davis and Moreno. They are open to the public and start at 7 p.m.

Location:
Center for Social Justice
1603 N Davis St

Cost: FREE

Directions: corner of Davis and Moreno

Organizer:

The Murder of Fred Hampton

The Black Panther Party galvanized millions of African Americans against police repression and brutality, upholding the right of armed self-defense. The government lauched a campaing of murder, jailings and disinformation to destroy the BPP. This film documents the Chicago police murder of one of the most charissmatic and effective Panther leaders, Illinois Party chapter charman Fred Hampton.

Location:
Red Emma's

Cost: Free

URL: http://redemmas.org

Tortured by the U.S. Government: from Abu Ghraib to San Quentin

Event: Tortured by the U.S. Government: from Abu
Ghraib to San Quentin
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2005
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Webb Auditorium, RIT campus, Gannett Building
(Bldg 7)

A public forum at the Rochester Institute of
Technology will discuss the links between the U.S.
government’s mistreatment of prisoners seized abroad
and the situation of prisoners caught up in the
domestic criminal justice system. Featured speakers
are Shujaa Graham, a former inmate on California’s
death row, exonerated and released in 1981; and
Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege
(Haymarket/Pluto) and co-editor with Howard Zinn of
Voices of a People’s History of the United States
(Seven Stories Press).

The Bush Administration has stirred controversy in
claiming the power to lock up without charge both
citizens and non-citizens, captured within and outside
the borders of the U.S. The incidents of torture and
abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan, and the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in
Cuba have been well-documented.
The Administration has also spearheaded an
unprecedented rounding-up and detention of
immigrants—especially Arabs and Muslims, along with
concerted attacks on civil liberties through measures
like the USA Patriot Act. And all this comes at a
time when the U.S. locks up a higher proportion of its
own citizens than any other country in the world: more
than two million in prison.
The January 13th forum on “Tortured by the U.S.
Government: from Abu Ghraib to San Quentin” will look
the common threads running through all these abuses of
government power, both actual and potential, and what
can be done to address them. The event is free and
open to the public.

Location:
Webb Auditorium, RIT campus, Gannett Building (Bldg 7)

Organizer:

HUFF's Vigil Against Two Wars

HUFF shares space with Santa Cruz Copwatch in front of Borders Book Store. We also have a radio which plays Free Radio Santa Cruz's Bathrobespierre's Broadsides--a two hour civil rights show concerned with local human rights violations--from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Often we have access to a cellular phone to call in to the show and report police misconduct and other discrimination against the poor directly from the street.

We also circulate petitions urging City Council to take actions to end the War in Iraq and the War Against the Poor in Santa Cruz. The petitions urge the Rotkin City Council to loosen local laws so as to permit medical marijuana distribution centers, urge the Council to press for the impeachment of Bush, urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, urge restoration of public spaces and benches downtown, and urge an end to the Sleeping, Blanket, and Camping Bans.

We also distribute literature as well as the monthly homeless newspaper Street Spirit.

HUFF activists also cook and distribute food, often vegan, which we pass out until the pot is empty.

Location:
In front of New Leaf Market at Pacific and Soquel

Directions: In front of Borders Book Store in Santa Cruz downtown on Pacific Avenue at Soquel

Organizer:

URL: www.huffsantacruz.org, www.santacruzcopwatch.org

Peace Witness - Tallahassee

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Sundays and Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org

Location:
Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: FREE!!!!!

Clarksville Weekly Vigil Against the War in Iraq

Our candlelight vigils are every Thursday night, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in
downtown Clarksville, Public Square and Main Street.

We read poetry at the vigils and display the number of US soldiers
killed
and wounded and number of Iraqi civilians killed to date.


We have a newsletter called: Clarksville Freethinkers for Peace and
Civil
Liberties. Our e-mail is Freeinthesouth-AT-bellsouth.net

Thanks again,
debbie

Location:

March for Peace 2nd Planning Meeting

This is a planning meeting for the March 19th peace march and rally. All interested persons are invited to help us plan this event. We have many details to work out and could use some extra brains.

Location:
Pilgrim Congregational Church
400 Glenwood Drive
Chattanooga, TN 37407

Directions: intersection of Glenwood Drive and 3rd Street, near Notre Dame High School and Memorial Hospital

Organizer:

Vigil at Lockheed Martin

Vigil against Lockheed Martin, one of the largest to profit from George Bush's neverending war.

Location:
NW corner of Pilot Knob Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan.

Cost: free

Vigil at Lockheed Martin

Vigil against Lockheed Martin, one of the largest to profit from George Bush's neverending war.

Location:
NW corner of Pilot Knob Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan.

Cost: free